Power and Resistance, 7th ed.: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues

Jessica Antony (Curatore)

Wayne Antony (Curatore)

Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2022

Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society's problems that sees poverty as a result of laziness, environmental crises as a result of market demands for products that pollute, and Indigenous Peoples' struggles as a result of not assimilating. We argue that it is social inequality and oppression that are the underlying causes of social problems. In a society like ours, powerful groups make choices that benefit them and force those choices onto others, creating life problems for others and society as a whole. The powerful also have influence over what is and is not called a "social problem." Solving social problems requires changing the structures of inequality and oppression. For example, industrial corporate agriculture has created huge profits for a few gigantic food corporations but left much of the world hungry. But farmers and their allies are pushing back through agroecology - an agriculture based on local, small-scale, ecologically sustainable farming that brings eaters and growers closer to one another. The seventh edition of Power and Resistance includes new chapters on anti-Black racism in schools, Indigenous people and mental health, food security and sovereignty, and work in the gig economy.

• Curatore: Jessica Antony, Wayne Antony
• Editore: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 465 p.
• Dimensioni: 24 x 17 mm
• EAN: 9781773635187

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